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BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
GOVERNOR
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
20301 MAIL SERVICE CENTER • RALEIGH, NC 27699‐0301
Oct. 18, 2011
Contact: Chris Mackey
Office: (919) 733‐5612
Gov. Perdue Leads Discussion about Public-Private Partnerships in Education
Summit Explores Opportunities to Grow International Participation in Cross-Cultural Programs
BEIJING – Gov. Bev Perdue and N.C. Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco led a discussion today with business and education leaders about opportunities for Chinese students at North Carolina colleges and universities.
The forum was hosted by New Mind Education, an innovative Raleigh-based company that helps Chinese students succeed in American colleges. The event was an opportunity for Gov. Perdue to promote the state as a destination for Chinese students, and to help New Mind Education expand and grow its business in China.
“Today’s event was an opportunity to both help a great North Carolina company grow its business in China and to show off our colleges and universities to Chinese students and leaders,” Gov. Perdue said. “In addition to paying out-of-state tuition and bringing revenue to our state, international students increase campus diversity and help foster a greater understanding between our countries.”
China has supplanted India to become the biggest source country of foreign students in the U.S. In 2010, more than 40,000 undergraduate students from China entered U.S. colleges and universities. In China, increases in the standard of living, the growth of the upper middle class and the focus placed by parents on the education of their single child have been forces driving this growth in students going abroad.
“We look forward to the partnership with New Mind Education and many North Carolina-based education institutions,” says Ms. Chaoying Hou, the head of Department of Education of Luoyang, a city of 6.4 million populations in central China. “US higher education institutions are

BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
GOVERNOR
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
20301 MAIL SERVICE CENTER • RALEIGH, NC 27699‐0301
Oct. 18, 2011
Contact: Chris Mackey
Office: (919) 733‐5612
Gov. Perdue Leads Discussion about Public-Private Partnerships in Education
Summit Explores Opportunities to Grow International Participation in Cross-Cultural Programs
BEIJING – Gov. Bev Perdue and N.C. Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco led a discussion today with business and education leaders about opportunities for Chinese students at North Carolina colleges and universities.
The forum was hosted by New Mind Education, an innovative Raleigh-based company that helps Chinese students succeed in American colleges. The event was an opportunity for Gov. Perdue to promote the state as a destination for Chinese students, and to help New Mind Education expand and grow its business in China.
“Today’s event was an opportunity to both help a great North Carolina company grow its business in China and to show off our colleges and universities to Chinese students and leaders,” Gov. Perdue said. “In addition to paying out-of-state tuition and bringing revenue to our state, international students increase campus diversity and help foster a greater understanding between our countries.”
China has supplanted India to become the biggest source country of foreign students in the U.S. In 2010, more than 40,000 undergraduate students from China entered U.S. colleges and universities. In China, increases in the standard of living, the growth of the upper middle class and the focus placed by parents on the education of their single child have been forces driving this growth in students going abroad.
“We look forward to the partnership with New Mind Education and many North Carolina-based education institutions,” says Ms. Chaoying Hou, the head of Department of Education of Luoyang, a city of 6.4 million populations in central China. “US higher education institutions are